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Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:16:57AM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Luke Kendall wrote:
>> On 4 Aug, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>> explorer /e,$XPATH & disown %-
>>
>> Don't try this variant, though, since it doesn't work:
>>
>> explorer /e,"$XPATH" & disown %-
>>
>> What happens if you try that innocuous-looking variant is that
>> Cygwin (or bash?) normalises the path /e,... to a windows path
>> first, producing \e,...
>
> I'm an utter fanatic about quoting to make sure that what I have in
> variables isn't munged. So I'm dismayed to learn that quoting can
> *cause* munging and that something munges values in new and exciting
> ways.
>
> Is there any documentation on who rewrites arguments, under what
> conditions, and how they're altered?
I missed this when it was first mentioned. Cygwin doesn't munge command
line arguments. Why would it assume that /e,something was a windows
path? That makes no sense.
cgf
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